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Mask or Menace | MODERATORS ([personal profile] maskormods) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2015-04-14 04:25 pm
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Turning over a new LIF

WHO: The imPorts!
WHERE: The Ashen Tree, NYC, New York. Need help getting there? See here!
WHEN: April 14th, 8:00 PM - April 15th 1:00 AM
WHAT: The April Swearing In Guessing Game!
WARNINGS: None foreseeable!


Welcome to The Ashen Tree! This sleek, elegant private property leased out only occasionally for limited and exclusive events. The Ashen Tree is a five story, century-and-half old mansion down East 67th Street, constructed somewhat in the vein of those famed and excessive Vanderbilt houses. The theme inherent to The Ashen Tree is in black and white -- this duality means more than just visual aesthetic. There is right, and there is wrong. There is good and there is evil. There is Registered and there is Unsettled. This reoccurring dilemma won't be lost upon your hosts, governmental or otherwise.

The thrust of this Swearing In is to play a game! There will be two versions of this game. If you are newly imPorted (if this is the FIRST Swearing In that occurred since you have been ported in), then you are automatically entered into a raffle to win prizes! You can enter your name into the raffle ONCE for EVERY THREAD with A DIFFERENT CHARACTER that you have! How lucky you are! If you have BEEN here (if this is NOT the first Swearing In that occurred since you have been ported in), then you may only enter the raffle if you WIN at the game.

What is the game?

The Identity Game.

Every imPort who is in the DESIGNATED ROOMS: ROOT, TRUNK, BRANCH, and TWIGS will do their best to pretend to act like another imPort. If someone (who is also in character, just like you are) guesses what imPort you are pretending to be, then THEY may enter their name in the raffle. If you guess the pretend identity of someone else, then YOU get to enter your name in the raffle. There is no sign-up for who pretends to be whom, and there can be multiple imPorts impersonating the same imPort. That will not be regulated. The more you guess correctly someone's pretend identity (which can be achieved by threading with many people), the more you get to enter your name in the raffle. You MUST guess the identity of the imPort being impersonated correctly -- there is right and there is wrong. If someone guesses your character's impersonation correctly, then you have to tell them. You do not have to keep the same impersonation for the WHOLE LOG, but you do for at least a single thread! No changing up identity on someone. ANY imPort can play this game, INCLUDING new imPorts. While new imPorts can play the Guessing Game, or impersonate other imPorts to their desire, their eligibility to enter the raffle is still judged differently. Because they're new!

The LEAVES ROOM is the "safe" zone. You can be yourself! You can stop pretending! Well, maybe some imPorts never actually stop pretending -- maybe there is some gray between all this black and white.
infomodder: did you think it couldn't get any worse, because it's about to (wonder twin powers activate!)

[personal profile] infomodder 2015-04-30 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
He's only got eyes for her (well, her power, but that's an extension of her, and thus her) at the moment, widening as petals come to life, as Raina somehow gets the perfect shade of blue he was imagining in his head. He does fetch, and incredible is clearly his thought about it, too, even without the barely noticeable nod he gives her as he twists it in his hand. Makes sure it's real and going to stay instead of evaporating into bubbles or falling into a pile of ash thirty seconds later. That question? Not so incredible. The shadow of Hannibal Lecter can't loom behind him for Raina, she can't know what she's really asking with that. How can she when, as far as Will's picked up on, she didn't even know him before this?

"Not at all." He looks down at his chest, realizes he doesn't have a pocket on this particular coat, nowhere to gently place a flower that doesn't seem odd. So he keeps his hands on the table and idly twirls it, dividing his attention between her face (well, more like her hair, now that he's imagining how all those daisies came to be) and the larkspur. "Has so many different meanings from place to place, person to person, it feels meaningless. I don't put stock in it or think about it much. No point."

A villain is the hero, in their own eyes, and so forth and so on. Perhaps it's not difficult to pick up on the fact that Will, at least with this, seems to not want to classify himself as something that has become meaningless. He might get busted up, broken, shattered, whatever else, but he'll always come back together. He will fight his way back to who he is, find meaning, purpose, agenda. He will be useful, have some sort of value. Whether or not it's a value he'd like to be associated with or is actually used for a greater good depends on how it's channeled, but Will Graham isn't out of the game yet. Not entirely.
orangehoodie: ((ken) 64)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
If it is, I'll break the law to keep him.
ursawhiner: going like what up, I'm ghostbustin. (Walking around with my dick out)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, wow! Turning to a life of crime already.

[Says the child who's been in Colombian jail.]
orangehoodie: ((ken) 26)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
You say that like you assume I haven't already.

[... Aside from the assumed guilt for homicide that Ken has he does carry a deadly weapon around every night. You know.]
ursawhiner: But what about adults? The fun-swing. (Swings are great for the kids.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
--I won't tell anyone if you won't tell anyone.

[Is he joking? Maybe.]
orangehoodie: ((ken) 12)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Give him a moment.]

-- Wait.

You're a criminal?
ursawhiner: he's trapped in Yahoo answers and he wants out so bad. (John Lennon's ghost in the machine)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Uhhh... they never pressed any charges. So technically no.
orangehoodie: ((ken) 29)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
... A crime is a crime, Dipper.

[Justice child will not budge on this one buddy]
ursawhiner: Quantum Leap, colon, Quatum Leaping More. (Quantum Leap 2: Leaped Again.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Still definitely no.

[At least for the purposes of this conversation.]
debauchewy: @vou (fill up)

[personal profile] debauchewy 2015-04-30 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't we try enough? Or should I be visiting you more often?" A raise of his brow, tilting his head as his smile widens. Sex sex sex, sure.

"Well, considering my other interests, I've already been adding blood to my repertoire." A sly gaze, moving up Dorian's body and stopping at his neck.

"How are you on-

exhibitionism?" Perhaps not right here, but there are bathrooms nearby, and with Hisoka? Anything can be a blade, though... His gaze gets a little darker, Hisoka aura thickening slightly, invisible of course, but Dorian will feel it, sinister weight in the air around the other man. Maybe pointless, but some how he thinks Dorian won't decline the offer, especially since ordering him might just fall under his vices.

"That or I can just make you, ah- if I want it enough, if you do? You'll follow me, won't you?" Lips peeling a little wider. "Or I can just- not give you a choice."
Edited 2015-04-30 05:19 (UTC)
orangehoodie: ((ken) 33)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

[SIGH]

I have a gun on me right now and I can summon a spear, too. That's more illegal than Koromaru.
ursawhiner: but I see you've loaded up Earth Girls are Easy. (I WAS trying to watch The Pianist)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Whyyyyyyyyy do you have a gun? Is that normal?!

[His voice is getting alarmingly squeaky.]
debauchewy: @vou (bug)

[personal profile] debauchewy 2015-04-30 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[His eyes glint, leaning back on the sink.]

More? have you gotten to do something so impressive since arriving here yet?

Mmmnn... [A thoughtful sound, tilting his head.]

Can you mimic people?
bulwank: @vouloir (seventyone)

[personal profile] bulwank 2015-04-30 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
"It is my plan for it to tolerate powers of every type. It will be a sanctuary for ImPorts having difficulty getting to better know their strengths, weaknesses, and limits." But he'll- smile a little. Just a little.

No a bit more, even gripping a fist tight up infront of him.

"To see those here, those calling themselves heroes as well as those trying to live normal lives, for them to grab hold of their potential! To know discipline! To better defend themselves and those around them! It will be great. It will!"
orangehoodie: ((ken) 35)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh dear. He waves his hands!!] Don't worry, it isn't real.
ursawhiner: your granpa is super worried about what you're doing on the toilet? (Do you think in the ethereal plane)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
That's still not okay!
orangehoodie: ((ken) 12)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's like a magical tool!
ursawhiner: Gimme that sssssap. (Did you ever read "The Taking Tree"?)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Is this part of the head monster thing?
orangehoodie: ((default))

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes?
ursawhiner: In riding a horse we borrow freedom. (Elegance. Beauty. Spirit. Fire.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Your life is definitely weirder than mine.
orangehoodie: ((ken) 09)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
I never denied that.
ursawhiner: I'm looking at the lamp and it's screaming in my brain. (How was my babyhood? Not great.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, it's not like you can help it.
orangehoodie: ((default))

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well, no, but.

Hey, listen.
ursawhiner: Let me show you to the pancreas. We've made a life down there. (Welcome traveler.)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-04-30 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah?

[Dipper honestly has no idea what to expect now.]
orangehoodie: ((ken) 05)

[personal profile] orangehoodie 2015-04-30 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
This place isn't as bad as my world was. But weird things happen, sometimes. You probably heard from why you were brought here already, right?

... Sometimes, you're gonna have to fight. I'm used to that. So -- as your friend, if you ever need help, I will, okay? But if I'm gonna, I'll have to use Nemesis in front of you. So just... look away, when I do.